Archive for September, 2009

it appears that if you are creating an email on an OSX Mac, and you copy and paste an image into the email, the image is put inline as a .tiff attachment. Well I’m not sure when this started in the Windows line, but it appears that windows no longer has the association for .tif or .tiff files in Outlook / Outlook Express / Etc…

Here is a link to try:
You cannot view pictures by using Windows Picture and Fax Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/921048

Here is an example of a script to create the associations via the registry in XP:

This reg file will restore .tif and .tiff file association to Windows XP
default.

Copy between “=====” and paste in notepad, save as tif.reg

Double-click or right-click and merge into the Registry.

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.tiff]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.tiff]
“Content Type”=”image/tiff”
“PerceivedType”=”image”
@=”TIFImage.Document”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.tiff\OpenWithProgids]
“TIFImage.Document”=hex(0):

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.tiff\PersistentHandler]
@=”{098f2470-bae0-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.tif]
“Content Type”=”image/tiff”
“PerceivedType”=”image”
@=”TIFImage.Document”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.tif\OpenWithProgids]
“TIFImage.Document”=hex(0):

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.tif\PersistentHandler]
@=”{098f2470-bae0-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}”

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TIFImage.Document]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TIFImage.Document]
“EditFlags”=dword:00010000
“FriendlyTypeName”=hex(2):40,00,25,00,53,00,79,00, 73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,\
00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00 ,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,\
32,00,5c,00,73,00,68,00,69,00,6d,00,67,00,76,00,77 ,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,\
00,2c,00,2d,00,33,00,30,00,36,00,00,00
“ImageOptionFlags”=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TIFImage.Document\DefaultIcon]
@=”shimgvw.dll,4″

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TIFImage.Document\shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TIFImage.Document\shell\open]
“MuiVerb”=”@shimgvw.dll,-550”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TIFImage.Document\shell\open\com mand]
@=”rundll32.exe C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fulls creen
%1″

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TIFImage.Document\shell\open\Dro pTarget]
“Clsid”=”{E84FDA7C-1D6A-45F6-B725-CB260C236066}”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TIFImage.Document\shell\printto]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TIFImage.Document\shell\printto\ command]
@=”rundll32.exe C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Print To /pt
\”%1\” \”%2\” \”%3\” \”%4\””
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